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The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. Responding to Orlan's definition of her performance surgeries as "carnal art," C. Jill O'Bryan considers how the artist's ever-fluctuating face questions idealized beauty and fe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Bryan, C. Jill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Orlan > Criticism and interpretation.
Orlan
Orlan.
Body art > France.
Performance art > France.
Surgery in art.
Art corporel > France.
Chirurgie dans l'art.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
Body art
Performance art
Surgery in art
Art charnel.
Art de performance.
Chirurgie.
Thème artistique.
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. Responding to Orlan's definition of her performance surgeries as "carnal art," C. Jill O'Bryan considers how the artist's ever-fluctuating face questions idealized beauty and female identity, and complicates the notion of identity-and its relation to the body-at the boundary dividing art from identity.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 199, [16] pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816695805
0816695806

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